:00:10. > :00:13.The first British nuclear power station to be built in a generation
:00:14. > :00:17.gets the go-ahead, amid more arguments over energy bills. It will
:00:18. > :00:27.cost ?16 billion, take ten years to build, and construction will create
:00:28. > :00:30.thousands of jobs. By investing in nuclear power stations, we increase
:00:31. > :00:33.the chance that bills will be lower than they otherwise would have been
:00:34. > :00:36.if we did not invest in technologies like this. But there is more misery
:00:37. > :00:39.for customers, as another energy giant, Npower, put its prices up.
:00:40. > :00:42.Also tonight... A Ukranian student admits murdering an 82-year-old
:00:43. > :00:46.grandfather on his way home from the mosque. The young girl discovered in
:00:47. > :00:51.a Roma community in Greece - a couple appear in court accused of
:00:52. > :00:54.abducting her. Tesco reveals the amount of food
:00:55. > :00:58.that ends up as waste - worth ?700 a year for the average family.
:00:59. > :01:00.Will others follow where Liverpool leads? The city scraps bus lanes for
:01:01. > :01:21.a nine-month trial. Coming up in the sport, Theo Walcott
:01:22. > :01:24.will miss a further three matches, possibly more, as he suffers an
:01:25. > :01:48.injury setback following surgery. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:49. > :01:51.News at Six. It is the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain
:01:52. > :01:54.for a generation. Hinkley Point C was given the go ahead today, with
:01:55. > :01:57.arguments raging about whether it will eventually bring down energy
:01:58. > :01:59.bills. That row intensified today when another energy giant, Npower,
:02:00. > :02:07.became the latest supplier to hike its prices. Hinkley C will take ten
:02:08. > :02:12.years to build. It will generate 7% of the UK's electricity supply. And
:02:13. > :02:17.it is expected to create around 25,000 jobs during the construction.
:02:18. > :02:20.We will have reaction from customers in a moment, but our industry
:02:21. > :02:31.correspondent, John Moylan, has our first report tonight.
:02:32. > :02:39.Hinkley point in Somerset. For almost 50 years, it has been
:02:40. > :02:43.generating power for Britain. Now, that is set to continue for decades
:02:44. > :02:51.to come. This land will be the site of one of the biggest nuclear plants
:02:52. > :02:55.ever built. To mark the occasion, the most powerful man in Britain
:02:56. > :03:01.came to one of the most powerful places on the planet, Hinkley's
:03:02. > :03:07.existing reactor, to make the case for nuclear. By investing in nuclear
:03:08. > :03:10.power stations, we increase the chance that bills will be lower than
:03:11. > :03:15.they otherwise would have been if we did not invest. In the two years it
:03:16. > :03:21.took to negotiate this deal, one potential investor, Centrica, pulled
:03:22. > :03:25.out, paving the way for Chinese investments to come in. If it goes
:03:26. > :03:29.to plan, the new powers stations will be switched on in ten years'
:03:30. > :03:35.time, just as the exacting reactor in the distance is switched off. --
:03:36. > :03:41.existing reactor. Private firms, not taxpayers, will be covering the ?16
:03:42. > :03:46.billion upfront investment. In return, they will be guaranteed a
:03:47. > :03:54.price per megawatt hour, which is almost twice the current wholesale
:03:55. > :04:00.price. EDF and its partners will bear the risk if the cost of the
:04:01. > :04:07.project spirals out of control. But the plant will add to our bills. So,
:04:08. > :04:11.is it a good deal for consumers? It is an excellent deal for the British
:04:12. > :04:15.customers. It will create thousands of jobs, and at the same time, it
:04:16. > :04:20.will deliver secure, low carbon electricity at a price which will be
:04:21. > :04:26.more competitive than otherwise. But that is for the future. For now,
:04:27. > :04:33.millions more households are facing yet another energy price-wise.
:04:34. > :04:38.Average dual fuel bills at end has a will be going up by more than 10%,
:04:39. > :04:46.adding more than ?130 to average household energy costs. It will hit
:04:47. > :04:50.more than 3 million customers. It is another day, another 10% rise in
:04:51. > :04:52.energy prices, and we have got a Prime Minister who is standing up
:04:53. > :04:59.for the companies, not hard-pressed families. The deal still requires EU
:05:00. > :05:04.approval. Final contracts should be signed next year. If it goes ahead,
:05:05. > :05:07.Britain will be entering a new nuclear age. Well, the suggestion
:05:08. > :05:10.from David Cameron that the new power station could help to peg
:05:11. > :05:14.energy prices back will interest energy customers - especially as it
:05:15. > :05:22.comes on the day another of the big suppliers raised its tariffs.
:05:23. > :05:24.Today, the government got broad political support for the Hinkley
:05:25. > :05:29.Point steel. The three largest parties all support new nuclear
:05:30. > :05:33.projects, including the Liberal Democrats. The Government has been
:05:34. > :05:37.able to use today to make big arguments about the need to generate
:05:38. > :05:40.more electricity, in a low carbon way, and also ensuring energy
:05:41. > :05:45.security. Ministers have also been claiming that unlike with past to
:05:46. > :05:51.Labour governments, they are grasping the nettle and thinking
:05:52. > :05:56.long-term about the economy. But MPs have been raising some detailed
:05:57. > :06:01.questions, like, is it the right price, are the risks too large, will
:06:02. > :06:03.this actually reduce prices in the long-term? The Energy Secretary
:06:04. > :06:08.today said, we can give no guarantees, you would have to be a
:06:09. > :06:12.clairvoyant to try to work out precisely what this project will
:06:13. > :06:15.cost in the long-term. And there is also the question about energy
:06:16. > :06:21.prices. The timing of this could not be worse, on the day and has
:06:22. > :06:24.announced price rises, leaving the Government facing the accusation
:06:25. > :06:28.that they are fixing prices for energy companies for 35 years, but
:06:29. > :06:30.will not freeze prices for consumers over the next 20 months, as Labour
:06:31. > :06:47.wants to do. We will have more on this story
:06:48. > :06:49.later in the programme. A Ukranian student has admitted murdering an
:06:50. > :06:51.82-year-old grandfather in Birmingham. Pavlo Lapshyn stabbed
:06:52. > :06:55.Mohammed Saleem while he was walking home from a mosque in April.
:06:56. > :06:58.Lapshyn, who had only been in the country for five days, also admitted
:06:59. > :06:59.plotting to cause explosions near mosques in the West Midlands. Sian
:07:00. > :07:12.Lloyd reports. Ukrainian Ph.D. Student Pavlo
:07:13. > :07:18.Lapshyn, who detect it is described as calm, calculated and committed.
:07:19. > :07:23.His victim was Mohammed Saleem, an 82-year-old devout Muslim. Lapshyn
:07:24. > :07:27.stabbed him as he made his way home from the local mosque. Over the next
:07:28. > :07:31.few months, he plotted and made bombs which he took to three masks
:07:32. > :07:37.in the West Midlands. Today, at the Old Bailey, Lapshyn pleaded guilty
:07:38. > :07:44.to murder and admitted causing explosions and preparing for acts of
:07:45. > :07:48.terrorism. He was targeted simply because of his faith. His beard and
:07:49. > :07:54.his clothing represented who he was. Lapshyn chose to kill him that night
:07:55. > :07:58.with only that intention in mind. It was in this street that Pavlo
:07:59. > :08:02.Lapshyn stamped Mohammed Saleem three times in the back. He told
:08:03. > :08:07.police he had targeted the grandfather just because he was not
:08:08. > :08:11.white. The 25-year-old was an award-winning Ph.D. Student. This
:08:12. > :08:14.picture taken at the residence of the British ambassador in Kiev last
:08:15. > :08:19.year shows him being presented with his prize. A work placement at a
:08:20. > :08:23.software company in the heart of Birmingham's Muslim community
:08:24. > :08:29.followed. Five days after he arrived, he killed Mohammed Saleem.
:08:30. > :08:32.He plotted further violence from his flat on the site, where police found
:08:33. > :08:39.evidence of bomb-making activity. These CCTV pictures show how he
:08:40. > :08:44.travelled to the mosques by bus, carrying improvised explosive
:08:45. > :08:48.devices in a green bag, hidden in a child's lunchbox, which police say
:08:49. > :08:52.looked similar to this. The first explosion was in Walsall in June.
:08:53. > :08:57.One week later, another device went off in Wolverhampton. The last, a
:08:58. > :09:00.nail bomb, was timed to go off during Ramadan in Tipton. The
:09:01. > :09:06.devices could have killed and injured. None of them went off as
:09:07. > :09:12.planned, but in Tipton, debris was sent flying into a nearby street. He
:09:13. > :09:18.is a dangerous, Ivo and completely there is no justification for the
:09:19. > :09:24.crimes he committed or the intent he has. -- evil. Police say, far from
:09:25. > :09:30.furthering his career, Pavlo Lapshyn was a student intent on increasing
:09:31. > :09:32.racial conflict, and in the 90 days he spent in the UK, he managed to
:09:33. > :09:47.bring terror on an entire community. Three police officers have
:09:48. > :09:50.apologised for their "poor judgement" in briefing the media
:09:51. > :09:53.over the Plebgate affair, which cost MP Andrew Mitchell his job as a
:09:54. > :09:56.cabinet minister. The former chief whip resigned last year after an
:09:57. > :09:58.official police log reported that he called officers "plebs", something
:09:59. > :10:01.Mr Mitchell has always denied. The apology follows an investigation by
:10:02. > :10:04.West Mercia Police which criticised the way in which three officers
:10:05. > :10:05.conducted a meeting with Mr Mitchell when the allegations were first
:10:06. > :10:08.made. A couple accused of abducting a
:10:09. > :10:13.young girl in Greece have appeared in court. The child was found during
:10:14. > :10:16.a raid on a Roma camp last week. DNA tests have shown that the blthree
:10:17. > :10:18.onde girl is not related to the couple. Greek police have received
:10:19. > :10:22.more than 8,000 calls from around the world as they try to trace the
:10:23. > :10:30.girl's biological parents. From Greece, Mark Lowen reports.
:10:31. > :10:36.The first images today of the couple suspected by police of kidnapping a
:10:37. > :10:40.little girl for unknown reasons. They have now appeared in court,
:10:41. > :10:43.facing charges which they deny. They say Maria was given to them by
:10:44. > :10:47.someone who could not look after her. Members of the Roma community
:10:48. > :10:50.rallied in their defence. New footage appears to show Maria
:10:51. > :10:55.dancing happily in the village in central Greece, where she lived. It
:10:56. > :11:01.is near the town of Farsala, a quiet and unassuming place. The house
:11:02. > :11:04.where the couple and Maria lived was locked up today, no answer at the
:11:05. > :11:08.door, just signs of the life of a child strewn across the front porch.
:11:09. > :11:12.One neighbour said the couple was taking care of her well. She was
:11:13. > :11:18.crying when the police took her, she said. So what if she is blonde? She
:11:19. > :11:22.was their child, she says. In the next shop, cost us tells me he found
:11:23. > :11:27.her presents unusual. I do not know how she ended up here, he says. We
:11:28. > :11:31.just tried to film in the larger Roma community over there, but we
:11:32. > :11:35.were attacked and chased away. They believe they are marginalised, and
:11:36. > :11:40.that negative stereotypes of them will only be reinforced by this. But
:11:41. > :11:42.many Greeks say it is the involvement of some illegal Roma
:11:43. > :11:47.activity which created that perception in the first place.
:11:48. > :11:52.Either way, this has exposed the lack of social integration here.
:11:53. > :11:55.So, what now about the search for Maria's biological parents?
:11:56. > :12:00.According to official figures, she is one of 250,000 children who go
:12:01. > :12:04.missing in Europe every year. An international appeal to find her
:12:05. > :12:12.family is gathering place. -- gathering pace. She is feeling well,
:12:13. > :12:15.playing with her toys. We are trying to see if we get any specific leads
:12:16. > :12:19.which might be useful for the police. There are now probing
:12:20. > :12:23.questions, like how a seemingly out of place little girl lived here for
:12:24. > :12:26.so long. Was there something sinister involved, and how far
:12:27. > :12:29.across this community does it stretch?
:12:30. > :12:34.40% of the apples and a quarter of the grapes on sale at Tesco stores
:12:35. > :12:36.end up as rubbish. That's the startling revelation from the
:12:37. > :12:39.supermarket chain, which has published the figures for the first
:12:40. > :12:44.time. The company says the waste amounts to almost 30,000 tonnes of
:12:45. > :12:47.food in the first half of this year. Tesco says it will end some of its
:12:48. > :12:57.promotional offers to try to tackle the problem. Jeremy Cooke reports.
:12:58. > :13:05.A mountain of rubbish, piles of household waste, plastic and metal
:13:06. > :13:10.and packaging of all kinds. But look more closely and you can see that
:13:11. > :13:14.about a third of it is food. From not so fresh fruit and vegetable
:13:15. > :13:20.inevitable bags of salad, tonnes of it in a never-ending stream of
:13:21. > :13:27.recycling. We receive on average 650-700 tonnes a day, and we found
:13:28. > :13:31.that between 25-30% is pure organic matter, food waste, ultimately,
:13:32. > :13:37.whether it is potatoes, leftovers, gravy, you name it. At the heart of
:13:38. > :13:42.the matter, the big supermarkets. Today, Tesco has said it generated
:13:43. > :13:46.almost 30,000 tonnes of food waste in the first half of this year. It
:13:47. > :13:52.has announced changes, including restricting multi-byte deals and
:13:53. > :13:56.managing their supply chain. We think we can do more to help
:13:57. > :14:01.customers reduce waste, and also, we can help our suppliers, and make
:14:02. > :14:10.sure that more of what is produced ends up in the houses of customers.
:14:11. > :14:14.An estimated 15 millions tonnes of food and drink is consumed each
:14:15. > :14:21.year. Bread is the most wasted food, with 32% of all purchases getting
:14:22. > :14:26.thrown away. It all costs each household an estimated ?700 a year.
:14:27. > :14:29.This lady's fridge is typical of so many. She and her daughter are
:14:30. > :14:34.checking out the sell by dates, which is not good news. We have got
:14:35. > :14:40.two packets of corn on the cob, one from last week, one from the week
:14:41. > :14:43.before. She says part of the problem is overwhelming choice in the
:14:44. > :14:48.supermarkets. I go shopping and I tend to buy the same things each
:14:49. > :14:53.week, and they do it might be bags of salad, carrots, broccoli, trying
:14:54. > :14:59.to feed the kids the right things, and things end up getting thrown
:15:00. > :15:02.away. A big part of this is consumer choice perhaps the most obvious way
:15:03. > :15:08.for us to reduce the mountain of food waste is for all of us to bring
:15:09. > :15:10.home less from the supermarkets. The challenge is how to persuade
:15:11. > :15:15.consumers to buy only what we actually need.
:15:16. > :15:24.The time is 6:15pm. Our top story this evening: Britain's first
:15:25. > :15:28.nuclear power station in a generation gets the go-ahead. And
:15:29. > :15:31.still to come, an unusual welcome for the World Cup rugby league stars
:15:32. > :15:34.in Warrington More than 60 bush fires are raging in Australia
:15:35. > :15:42.tonight, engulfing houses and threatening whole towns. After a
:15:43. > :15:44.poor run in 2013, Rory McIlroy shows a return to form, finishing
:15:45. > :16:04.runner-up at the Korean open. More than 60 bushfires are raging in
:16:05. > :16:15.Australia, in golfing houses and threatening towns. -- engulfing
:16:16. > :16:18.houses. They're burning across New South Wales but the area worst hit
:16:19. > :16:20.is the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, where it's feared two
:16:21. > :16:23.blazes, one stretching 187 miles, could merge together. Temperatures
:16:24. > :16:26.of 37 degrees centigrade and winds of up to 50 miles per hour are
:16:27. > :16:29.fanning the flames. And New South Wales has declared a state of
:16:30. > :16:36.emergency. Our Correspondent Jon Donnison sent this report.
:16:37. > :16:44.Around the clock, firefighters are battling for control. But the task
:16:45. > :16:50.is massive. The biggest fire in the Blue Mountains has a perimeter
:16:51. > :16:53.stretching almost 200 miles. It is probably one of the biggest fire
:16:54. > :17:02.situations I have seen in 20 years of doing it. We do not have multiple
:17:03. > :17:08.fires, but we have fire on three or four sides. Some of the fight is
:17:09. > :17:15.carried out from the air. And on the ground, thousands of firefighters,
:17:16. > :17:21.most of them volunteers what they are doing here is back biting --
:17:22. > :17:24.backlighting, controlling fires to burn off vegetation before the
:17:25. > :17:30.dangerous fire can get here. What they are worried about is that
:17:31. > :17:36.several of the huge blazes could merge into one massive fire later in
:17:37. > :17:42.the week. But the weather is not helping. Temperatures today rose
:17:43. > :17:47.into the high 30s, and the real fear is the arrival of strong winds
:17:48. > :17:53.forecast for Wednesday. Many living here have been watching nervously to
:17:54. > :17:57.see if the fires can be held at bay. I have been really anxious for them
:17:58. > :18:02.to burn it, because then we can stop worrying. We have been watching the
:18:03. > :18:06.fire for two days creeping this way, so the sooner they got here and
:18:07. > :18:12.lit it up, the sooner we get a night of sleep. It is not just his home
:18:13. > :18:18.under threat. Nearby firefighters discovered a pet possum, injured but
:18:19. > :18:21.alive. It is not known what damage the fires have wreaked on the unique
:18:22. > :18:28.wildlife of this country. Hundreds of houses here have already been
:18:29. > :18:36.lost. Families left with nothing. Many more homes could go before this
:18:37. > :18:41.emergency is over. 50 miles away, Sydney, Australia's biggest city, is
:18:42. > :18:46.cloaked in smoke. A reminder that these fires are uncomfortably close.
:18:47. > :18:51.And all of this before summer has even started.
:18:52. > :18:55.Workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery have been voting on changes
:18:56. > :18:59.to their pay and conditions in a dispute over the future of the site.
:19:00. > :19:04.The plant has been closed since last week. The owners had set a deadline
:19:05. > :19:07.of 6:00pm for workers to accept a deal or face possible redundancy.
:19:08. > :19:16.Our Scotland Correspondent James Cook is at Grangemouth now. James,
:19:17. > :19:24.as I said, the deadline was 6pm. What is the latest? It has been a
:19:25. > :19:27.difficult day again for the 1350 staff at this refinery and
:19:28. > :19:32.petrochemical complex. They had until a few minutes ago to decide
:19:33. > :19:37.whether to accept the deal or not, which amounts to a pay freeze for at
:19:38. > :19:42.least three years, a cut in shift allowances and a move away from a
:19:43. > :19:45.final salary pension scheme. A union official emerged from the plant a
:19:46. > :19:52.few minutes ago to tell us that he thought around 50% of the members
:19:53. > :19:57.had rejected that deal. 50% of staff on the site had rejected that deal,
:19:58. > :20:01.and the union claims that the site is financially viable and doing
:20:02. > :20:04.quite well, but the owner has a different story, saying it is in
:20:05. > :20:09.trouble and it really needs these changes if it is going to be started
:20:10. > :20:13.up again. But for now, it remains closed. We are unlikely to find out
:20:14. > :20:18.what is going to happen until tomorrow, and that is when the
:20:19. > :20:22.billionaire owner, Jim Ratcliffe, will make a final decision which
:20:23. > :20:26.will affect a lot of people here and beyond. James, thank you.
:20:27. > :20:30.Bus lanes have been scrapped throughout Liverpool in a nine-month
:20:31. > :20:34.experiment to find ways of cutting congestion. The City's mayor
:20:35. > :20:36.believes bus lanes aren't an effective way of controlling the
:20:37. > :20:39.flow of traffic, but bus operators and transport groups have expressed
:20:40. > :20:45.concern at the plans. From Liverpool, Danny Savage reports.
:20:46. > :20:51.If you had driven a car across the bus lane yesterday, you would have
:20:52. > :20:55.been given a fine, but it was the beginning of a new era in Liverpool
:20:56. > :20:59.today. The bus lanes were opened up to all to try and ease congestion.
:21:00. > :21:04.And also improve the mood of motorists. It is ridiculous. I don't
:21:05. > :21:09.know how many times I have driven down roads and they are empty, but
:21:10. > :21:16.this one lane is full. It's a ridiculous idea. A good day for the
:21:17. > :21:19.drivers in Liverpool? A very good day. There is more space on the
:21:20. > :21:25.roads and you are not getting stuck in queues and queues of traffic.
:21:26. > :21:29.While plenty of drivers will undoubtedly welcome the abolition of
:21:30. > :21:33.the bus lane, what about bus passengers? Are they worried that
:21:34. > :21:38.journeys are going to take longer? It's already more expensive to get a
:21:39. > :21:42.bus than the train, so it made me think twice about getting it. You
:21:43. > :21:50.mean you will have buses and cars coming here? You're going to have
:21:51. > :21:54.congestion, aren't you? No, rubbish. But the bus lane are free for all is
:21:55. > :21:59.only a nine-month trial, which the mayor of Liverpool believes will
:22:00. > :22:02.make the city better. This will allow the traffic to smoothly run
:22:03. > :22:05.through the city, and in that sense it will be more environmentally
:22:06. > :22:09.friendly, because I genuinely believe that bus lanes, in certain
:22:10. > :22:16.bits of the city, add to the congestion. It is a financial
:22:17. > :22:20.sacrifice as well. Bus lane cameras generated ?700,000 in fines last
:22:21. > :22:23.year, but if it is is congestion, the City Council thinks it is a
:22:24. > :22:29.price worth paying. -- eases congestion. More on the top story,
:22:30. > :22:34.the go-ahead for the first British nuclear power station in a
:22:35. > :22:38.generation. David Cameron's suggestion that the new power plant
:22:39. > :22:46.could peg energy prices back will interest energy customers. We have
:22:47. > :22:50.been gauging reaction near the site amongst workers and other local
:22:51. > :22:54.people. They know all about energy round here. Tens of thousands of
:22:55. > :22:59.volts are being screwed into the electrified floats for the
:23:00. > :23:02.Bridgewater annual carnival -- light bulbs. What will a new nuclear power
:23:03. > :23:08.station up the road mean for household bills? Rosie is a working
:23:09. > :23:12.mother with three children. She would like to think energy prices
:23:13. > :23:18.will fall as a result of the new site, but she is not convinced it
:23:19. > :23:22.will make family life any easier. The fact that we have to cut down
:23:23. > :23:26.and cut down on everything all the time makes it very difficult to
:23:27. > :23:30.survive as a family unit, really. Which you will have a brand-new
:23:31. > :23:34.power station up the road producing Annecy. I do think that's going to
:23:35. > :23:40.make much difference to me in that respect. -- producing energy. As a
:23:41. > :23:44.job-seeker, this woman thinks the nuclear deal is good news. She is
:23:45. > :23:48.training for a job in construction after months of unemployment. She
:23:49. > :23:51.hopes to be amongst the thousands of workers who will be needed to build
:23:52. > :23:57.the power station over the next decade. It means everything. You
:23:58. > :24:02.know you have money coming in and coming in for a while. You can look
:24:03. > :24:08.ahead and plan ahead, which is good. Others are less convinced.
:24:09. > :24:11.Soon after the announcement today, antinuclear protesters delivered a
:24:12. > :24:20.pile of farmyard muck to the EDF energy showroom. Nicky thinks we
:24:21. > :24:24.should be investing in renewable power, like wind turbines and solar
:24:25. > :24:28.energy will stop and she has concerns about the long-term safety
:24:29. > :24:34.of nuclear -- nuclear -- solar energy. As a citizen, I will get
:24:35. > :24:42.awake -- in the way of the diggers, in the way of EDF, anyone who tries
:24:43. > :24:49.to impose this on my community. Next week, that community will be lit up
:24:50. > :24:54.for the carnival. A tradition that dates back centuries. But this year,
:24:55. > :24:55.perhaps more than ever before, they will be considering their energy
:24:56. > :25:02.future. It's the latest in a string of great
:25:03. > :25:07.sporting events being hosted in Britain. The Rugby League World Cup
:25:08. > :25:13.was launched today, five days ahead of England's clash with favourites
:25:14. > :25:16.Australia in Cardiff. It's an opportunity for the sport to grow
:25:17. > :25:18.its fan base beyond its traditional northern stronghold, as our Chief
:25:19. > :25:19.Sports Correspondent Dan Roan explains. His report contains flash
:25:20. > :25:29.photography. It may not be the World Cup that
:25:30. > :25:33.most sports fans have been talking about recently, but the spotlight is
:25:34. > :25:38.about to fall on Rugby league's flagship event. Today the captains
:25:39. > :25:42.of all 14 nations came together to launch the tournament in
:25:43. > :25:46.Manchester. England, who co-host the event alongside Wales, had slipped
:25:47. > :25:51.to a shock defeat to Italy in their last warm up game, but they know
:25:52. > :25:55.there is a lot at stake. England need to be successful here. As
:25:56. > :26:01.players, we are aware of it. We saw on the back of the Olympics last
:26:02. > :26:06.year, even going back further to the Rugby union World Cup in 2003, that
:26:07. > :26:14.legacy, the impact you can have on your own sport. Organisers claim
:26:15. > :26:20.that rugby's 14 World Cup will be the best attended ever with 28
:26:21. > :26:24.matches spread across 21 Stadium. The World Cup final will take place
:26:25. > :26:29.here, at Old Trafford, in just under six weeks time. But the sport is
:26:30. > :26:32.well aware that could prove a true success this tournament must make an
:26:33. > :26:39.impact nationally, and not just in the traditional northern heartlands.
:26:40. > :26:47.Here in rugby gland, Warrington, World Cup fever has taken home --
:26:48. > :26:51.hold. -- rugby land. This was the welcome for the team from Samoa. But
:26:52. > :26:55.in a time when the numbers playing the sport has fallen, the challenge
:26:56. > :27:02.lies in the south of the country where rugby league comes a distant
:27:03. > :27:06.second to rugby union. Most of the clubs are in the north, but we play
:27:07. > :27:09.rugby league in every county in the country. This is the biggest
:27:10. > :27:14.opportunity for the sport in a generation because nothing attracts
:27:15. > :27:18.people to sport like an international success. 1972, and the
:27:19. > :27:23.home Nations triumph at the World Cup, competing as Great Britain.
:27:24. > :27:27.This time, on home soil, hearts and minds must be won over by a sport in
:27:28. > :27:29.need of a breakthrough. Time for a look at the weather now. Here's
:27:30. > :27:37.Susan Powell. If you are not a fan of the rain,
:27:38. > :27:40.look away. Plenty to come this week, and the headline summarises what we
:27:41. > :27:46.have the next few days. Heavy rain, strong winds, but it will be quite
:27:47. > :27:51.mild. That is because we are pulling up there from the south of the UK.
:27:52. > :27:55.It will bring in heavy rain, but the strong winds might be the bigger
:27:56. > :27:59.problem around the Irish Sea coasts, touching gale force at times. The
:28:00. > :28:02.wettest weather is in the south-east, Wales, and the
:28:03. > :28:08.south-east of Scotland. Northern Ireland might just miss the worst of
:28:09. > :28:12.the rain as it sits further east. On Tuesday, the whole lot will push
:28:13. > :28:16.towards the east, starting fine with maybe some glimmers of sunshine but
:28:17. > :28:21.in the afternoon expect heavy and persistent rain. Further west, quite
:28:22. > :28:24.a transformation. Northern Ireland does not fare badly through all of
:28:25. > :28:29.this, but Scotland is drier and brighter in the afternoon. Northern
:28:30. > :28:33.England could pick up some showers. I cannot promise you it will be
:28:34. > :28:37.completely dry for Wales and the south-west, but it should look
:28:38. > :28:40.better than the morning and you can see sunshine. The south-east of
:28:41. > :28:43.England and East Anglia could be in for heavy rain through the afternoon
:28:44. > :28:50.and into the evening, unfortunately right in time for the Russia.
:28:51. > :28:54.Wednesday's story is blustery showers -- the rush hour. Persistent
:28:55. > :28:57.rainfall Scotland but Northern Ireland doing well through this.
:28:58. > :29:02.Thursday, blink and you will miss it, but there is a bit of
:29:03. > :29:08.high-pressure sitting across the UK, so Thursday not off to a bad start.
:29:09. > :29:12.Too good to last? You bet you. The low pressure piles on and brings
:29:13. > :29:16.strengthening winds. Yet more heavy rain sweeping across the British
:29:17. > :29:18.Isles, so basically, the week is summed up by wet, windy, but at
:29:19. > :29:20.least it is mild.